Robert D. Kaplan, «The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy»
Vintage | ISBN 0679751238 | 1st Vintage Departures Ed edition (January 28, 1997) | LIT | 0.5 Mb | 496 pages
Vintage | ISBN 0679751238 | 1st Vintage Departures Ed edition (January 28, 1997) | LIT | 0.5 Mb | 496 pages
"The future here could be sadder than the present," writes Robert Kaplan in a chapter about the African nation of Sierra Leone. From Kaplan's perspective, the same could be said of virtually the entire Third World, which he spends the bulk of this book visiting and describing. Kaplan, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and author of Balkan Ghosts, is congenitally pessimistic about the developmental prospects of West Africa, the Nile Valley, and much of Asia. This traveler's tale offers dire warnings about overpopulation, environmental degradation, and social chaos. We should all hope that Kaplan's forecast is wrong, but we ignore him at our peril.
Robert D. Kaplan, «Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History»
Picador | ISBN 0312424930 | Reprint edition (April 14, 2005) | LIT | 0.5 Mb | 368 pages
Picador | ISBN 0312424930 | Reprint edition (April 14, 2005) | LIT | 0.5 Mb | 368 pages
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire.
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